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3D imaging of crystal defects

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A clever combination of existing techniques has produced three-dimensional atomic images of individual platinum nanoparticles, disclosing the atomic structure of crystal defects within them. See Letter p.74

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Figure 1: Edge dislocation in a cubic crystal.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 27 March 2013.

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  1. Patrick J. McNally is at the Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland.,

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